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What Causes Water Accumulation in the Portafilter Basket After Espresso Extraction and How to Solve It
A friend with an espresso machine asked FrontStreet Coffee, "I've been encountering an issue when extracting espresso recently. After extraction, when I remove the portafilter, I notice water accumulation in the basket, and the extracted coffee puck isn't intact—it's quite wet?" He then mentioned, "At first, I thought the coffee grounds were too fine, so I adjusted the grinder to a coarser setting, but still..."
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How to Predict and Prevent Water Pooling in Pour-Over Coffee
When water pooling occurs in pour-over coffee after finishing the pour, with the drain holes blocked by coffee grounds, the only remedy is to stop the extraction by removing the filter cup to avoid over-extraction. However, if you detect signs of water pooling before completing the pour, there are many more ways to save the brew, such as adjusting your pouring technique.
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How to Use a Metal Coffee Filter? Common Issues and Improvement Methods for Pour-Over Metal Filters
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Metal coffee filters offer the advantage of eliminating paper filter waste and better retaining coffee oils, but they tend to have water pooling issues when brewing light roast coffee beans. The main cause of water pooling in metal filters is poor ventilation, as they lack the design of exhaust grooves to guide water flow
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Design of %arabica Coffee Shop in Chengdu's Kuanzhai Alley | Coffee Shop Design Appreciation
How to awaken dormant local culture has become a hot topic in the design industry in recent years. As the younger generation increasingly emphasizes the promotion and display of local culture, many people are renovating old buildings, integrating them with modern design to provide spaces for people to gather and communicate, as well as opportunities to showcase urban local culture.
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What to Do When Pour-Over Coffee Extraction Gets Blocked? How to Handle Water Pooling?
"Flow restriction" is a necessary measure when fine powder blockage occurs during pour-over brewing. If not intercepted in time, the bitter, over-extracted taste will give you a terrifying "tongue experience." However, if we can predict the signs that this brewing session is likely to cause blockage before it happens...
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How to Perfectly Pour-Over Light Roast Coffee? Understanding Slow Flow and Water Pooling Issues
For pour-over aficionados, crafting the perfect brewing recipe begins with assessing the coffee beans' roast degree, as each roast level presents unique extraction behaviors. Light roast beans, with their delicate roast profile, capture an abundance of floral and fruit aromatics, yet home brewing often yields only flat, one-dimensional acidity, leaving brewers questioning their technique. Light roast
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Why Is My Espresso Puck Wet? Causes of Slow Extraction and Water Pooling in the Portafilter
Normally, after extracting coffee, the puck should be relatively dry and come out as a complete block. However, we often find that after coffee extraction, the portafilter accumulates a large amount of water, the puck is moist and loose, and the extracted puck cannot form a solid block. Although
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Does Pour-Over Coffee Also Have Channeling Effects? What Causes Slow Water Flow and Water Pooling in Pour-Over Coffee?
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). How do turbulence and agitation affect the flavor of pour-over coffee? Pour-over coffee is truly wonderful! You can watch the water flow elegantly during brewing, while well-brewed coffee becomes a crystal-clear liquid,
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Analysis of Slow Pour-Over Coffee Flow Rate: What to Do When Coffee Won't Drain Properly?
Pour-over coffee, as a representative of drip extraction, can be seen as a process where water is first poured into coffee grounds, allowing the water to pass through the coffee layer and flow into the lower pot. With the assistance of an electronic scale, we can effectively control the pouring time. However, the total time for water to flow into the lower pot is affected by factors such as the grind size of the coffee grounds and the water absorption of the particles
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How Washed Coffee Beans Create Different Flavors - Flavor Description of Different Processing Methods for Natural vs. Washed Hua Gui Coffee
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Traditional natural sun-drying processing is quite labor-intensive. Hand-harvested high-sugar cherries must first be placed on African raised beds for sun-drying for about 10 days, then moved to a greenhouse covered with plastic sheeting to create more
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Introduction to the Advantages of Washed Coffee Beans: Flavor Profile of Washed El Salvador Coffee Beans
Professional coffee knowledge exchange for more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Introduction to FrontStreet Coffee's El Salvador Olive Tree Estate coffee: Coffee cherries picked from trees have varying degrees of maturity. Workers pour the coffee fruits into a large water pool, where unripe coffee fruits float on the surface due to lower density, while ripe coffee fruits sink to the bottom, and workers
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What Does Washed Coffee Bean Mean - Pros and Cons of Washed Coffee Beans - Flavor Comparison Between Washed and Natural Coffee Processing
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). An alternative processing method for coffee raw beans: Washed Processing (Washed Processing / Wet Processing). ●Processing Steps 1) Harvesting (same as natural processing). Divided into machine and manual harvesting. Specialty grade coffee must be manually harvested, selecting fully ripe coffee cherries.
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Panama Finca Los Lajos Natural Geisha Pour-Over Coffee Tips_How Much Water for 15g of Geisha Coffee
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). Panama Coffee Estate - Finca Los Lajos Origin: Panama Region: Chiriqui Finca Los Lajos Variety: Caturra Altitude: 1700m Harvest: December to April Process: White Honey Processing Finca Los Lajos is located in western Panama, in the Boquete town of the Baru Volcano, known for its coffee production
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El Salvador Hot Spring Coffee Pour-Over Parameters Suggestions_Hot Spring Coffee Bean Pour-Over Water Ratio Recommendations
Professional coffee knowledge exchange for more coffee bean information please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style) El Salvador coffee is all Arabica varieties with Bourbon accounting for over 60% Pacas at 30% (Pacas was discovered in El Salvador in the 1950s as a hybrid of Caturra and Bourbon) and Pacamara comprising nearly 10% Pacamara is a Pacas
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Why are washed coffee beans blue-green in color? What varieties of washed coffee beans are recommended?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange for more coffee bean information please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style) Fully washed method: Using washing and fermentation methods to remove peel pulp and mucilage farms using the washed method must build washing pools and be able to introduce a continuous supply of fresh water. During processing the fermented beans are placed in the pool and moved back and forth
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Introduction to Washed Yirgacheffe: How to Brew and Ratios
For more professional coffee knowledge and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). The phrase "a hundred flowers bloom in your mouth" perfectly describes Yirgacheffe coffee, with its delightful sensation that stimulates the taste buds and olfactory cells. Yirgacheffe originates from the Arabica coffee bean growing region where
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How Exactly is Kenya's Double Washed Process Operated? What Changes Does Double Washed Processing Create?
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). Kenya borders Ethiopia, but the varieties, appearance, and flavor of coffee beans from the two countries are vastly different. Kenyan coffee beans use the fully washed process, among which the most distinctive is the "double washed process".
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What Does Blue Mountain Coffee Taste Like and How to Brew It Deliciously
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). FrontStreet Coffee - Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Brewing Guide. The history of Jamaican coffee can be traced back to the 18th century, when in 1717, French King Louis XV ordered coffee cultivation in Jamaica, during the mid-1720s
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Introduction to El Salvador Santa Teresa Estate - El Salvador Coffee Guide
Professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information. Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America, geographically adjacent to Honduras, Guatemala, and the North Pacific Ocean. It boasts breathtaking volcanic groups, with highland terrain averaging 650 meters above sea level. El Salvador's Santa Teresa Estate consists of nearly 200
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Which Coffee Varieties Use Red Wine Processing Methods: Flavor Descriptions and Taste Profiles
Which coffee varieties use red wine processing methods with flavor descriptions and taste profiles. The red wine processing method for coffee beans, also known as red wine-style processing, is inspired by the winemaking process. Currently, only eight estates in Colombia have successfully brought coffee beans using this processing method to market, according to these eight estates
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